With Keystone, Big Oil gets the profits, foreign countries get the oil, and Americans get all the risks

If we’re going to risk building a pipeline through America, it better benefit Americans. With Keystone, Big Oil gets the profits, foreign countries get the oil, and Americans get all the risks.

A pipeline built through America to sell foreign oil to foreign countries risks disaster for American farmers and ranchers — just so Big Oil can make billions. Keystone is about protecting the profits of Big Oil campaign donors and hurting the President politically — not about America’s best interests. We’d get all the risks and not even get the oil.

Of course that’s what Big Oil claims, but the only independent study of Keystone found that those industry numbers are wildly exaggerated.

Actually, the pipeline could kill more jobs than it creates. It would raise gas prices in the Midwest, laying off thousands in trucking and tourism. And a rupture in Keystone would devastate farms and ranches along the pipeline, just like the BP Oil spill devastated Gulf fishermen.

If the oil is in Canada, why send it all the way across America to the Texas coast? Because the oil can then be shipped overseas from the Texas ports. TransCanada refuses to even promise that the oil will be used in the U.S.

We are not going to get the oil. The Canadian oil that would be carried on Keystone is not destined for America — it’s destined to be shipped overseas.

What else is Big Oil’s marketers going to say about their projects? Actual experience tells us that the pipelines coming out of TransCanada are prone to safety failures and spills — including one last summer that flooded North Dakota with 20,000 gallons of toxic oil.

Keystone XL will carry toxic, pipe-corroding oil across six states in America’s heartland and directly through one of our most important sources of fresh water.